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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry think about when he listens to Debussy?
(a) He thinks about his next meal.
(b) He thinks about where he can find a place to stay.
(c) He thinks about bedbugs and fleas.
(d) He wonders how a woman feels during sex.

2. What does Henry resist taking from the Cronstadt baby?
(a) A chicken bone
(b) A pacifier
(c) A glass of milk
(d) A Teddy bear

3. Why does Boris not introduce Henry to the American woman who comes to see the apartment?
(a) Because she is beautiful
(b) Because he fears Henry will say the wrong thing
(c) Because Henry needs a bath
(d) Because he hates Henry

4. Having gone all day without anything to eat, what enters Henry's mind?
(a) His wife Mona who is working and has plenty to eat
(b) A book he read about cheap whores on the Rue du Pasteur-Wagner
(c) A banquet he once attended where he ate pheasant under glass
(d) All the food that restaurants throw into the garbage bins

5. What does the young Hindu do that upsets the madame?
(a) He beats up a girl.
(b) He smokes foul smelling Indian cigars.
(c) He uses the bidet for a toilet.
(d) He refuses to pay.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry picture Serge's lazy slut of a wife?

2. How does Henry say he knows Nanantatee?

3. In spite of his hunger, where does Henry hang out in the evenings?

4. How do the commune people get money for food?

5. What deformity does Henry have in his fantasy at the cinema?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Kelpi makes his living.

2. In an attempt to get money, what is Henry unable to do?

3. What importance does Henry place on both the past and the future?

4. In relating his experience with the young Hindu, what is Henry expressing about his own beliefs?

5. Why is Henry so generous with his praise of the prostitute Germaine?

6. What had Henry hoped for when he met Serge?

7. Describe Henry's friends in Paris.

8. Why does Henry leave the apartment when Boris sits down to eat?

9. What lie does Henry tell the Cronstadts when they invite him to join their meal?

10. How does Henry use sarcasm in describing Nanantatee's lavish apartment?

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